Request: Allow Gemini API to analyze unlisted YouTube videos

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Hi @rgilbert_sb,

Welcome to the Forum,

Thank you for your feedback. We appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts with us and we will share your feedback to the team.

Instead of providing a Youtube url, you can use the File API to upload your video file. This method is designed for this exact type of scenario and has a few advantages:

  • It bypasses the public-only restriction for Youtube URLs.
  • It’s more suitable for larger files and longer videos.
  • You can reuse the uploaded file across multiple requests to Gemini.

Thank you!